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Icrc) Action & Results: December 2013 – May 2014 INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (ICRC) ACTION & RESULTS: DECEMBER 2013 – MAY 2014 ICRC’s operational priorities in the region focus on the protection and assistance of communities and individuals most vulnerable to and aected by armed violence; in particular migrants, missing persons and their families. ACTIVITIES FOR MIGRANT PEOPLE Meeting basic needs of protection and assistance An internal study on the humanitarian consequences of armed violence in Mexico undertaken in 2011 by the ICRC, indicated that migrants are amongst the most vulnerable populations in need of protection. To address the situation, the ICRC launched a humanitarian programme with the objective to meet the basic needs (health, clean water, contact with their families) of migrants and work towards reducing their vulnerability. The ICRC works in close collaboration with the Red Cross National Societies of Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras to respond to some of the needs Ana Argotte/ICRC Ana of migrants along the migration route from Central to North America. A Mexican Red Cross mobile clinic along the train tracks, Tenosique, Tabasco The programme provides migrants with basic Results medical care and drinking water, assists migrants with serious injuries or amputations, Over the past six months, more than 11’000 The ICRC supported the Mexican Red Cross and facilitates migrants’ contact with their migrants received basic medical assistance at Society in rehabilitating its water purication relatives through the Restoring Family Links Mexican Red Cross Society/ICRC assistance equipment and improved its capacity for both (RFL) programme’s services and network. The points, and about 300 migrants contacted their drinking water production and distribution. RFL eorts include the services provided by the families using ICRC-funded telephone services. Eight migrant shelters run by Mexican American Red Cross, which has set up several Furthermore, about 400 migrants called their non-governmental organisations were assisted calling stations in shelters on the United States families from projects in shelters in the Mexican in the past six months, either through of America’s (U.S.) side of the border with state of Coahuila. Some 3’000 repatriated improvements to access to drinking water or by Mexico, oering international phone calls to migrants benetted from similar services in El rehabilitating infrastructure. A physical migrants looking to contact their relatives. Carmen, Guatemala, and more than 1’600 migrants in Corinto, Honduras. The American rehabilitation room for migrant amputees was Basic health care is provided in mobile or Red Cross Society, in partnership with local constructed at the shelter of El Buen Pastor in permanent facilities and through mobile migrant service organisations, has been able to Tapachula, Chiapas – in southern Mexico – and brigades run by the Mexican Red Cross, located provide more than 950 phone calls home for was handed over to the director of the shelter at at strategic points along the migration route in vulnerable migrants seeking to reconnect with the end of November 2013. Overall, 800 Mexico, as well as at deportation points along their loved ones in three areas along the Texas migrants benetted daily from the improved the U.S.-Mexico border. In cooperation with the and Arizona border, since the summer of 2013. conditions in these shelters. A contest titled, ICRC, similar services are provided by the The American Red Cross Society also provided “Supporting those who support migrants,” was Guatemalan Red Cross Society located in El rst aid and water purication supplies to an sponsored by the Migratory Issues Programme Carmen (at the border with Mexico) as well as Arizona desert camp. of the Ibero-American University in Mexico City by the Honduran Red Cross Society in Corinto and the ICRC. It received student proposals on (at the border with Guatemala), where In cooperation with the Red Cross National how to improve conditions in civil society migrants repatriated from Mexico are assisted. Societies of Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico, migrant shelters, while other groups worked on drinking water was distributed to 35’000 a hygiene promotion campaign along the migrants over the last six months. migration route. Migrants with serious injuries or amputations the National Institute for Migration (Instituto (many victims of accidents from falling from the Nacional de Migracion) on the treatment of La Bestia cargo train) were provided with crutches, migrants and their material and psychological walking sticks, wheelchairs and surgical material. conditions while they are being held. They also benetted from physical rehabilitation provided by institutions receiving ICRC support in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras (22 ACTIVITIES FOR MISSING PERSONS new cases in December 2013 – May 2014). Physio- AND THEIR FAMILIES therapists from the region benetted from Keisdo Shimabukuro/ICRC ICRC-sponsored training in lower limb manage- In 2013, the ICRC conducted a regional Caravan of missing migrants’ family members ment of amputees in Colombia. assessment on the needs of the families of missing migrants in El Salvador, Guatemala, Results In Honduras, the ICRC coordinates a network Honduras and Mexico. Once the internal report aimed at providing better support to amputees was completed, the ICRC shared its ndings In September 2013, the Attorney’s General Oce and injured migrants and their families. This with the families who were a part of the (PGR) signed an agreement with the ICRC in network gathers key partners such as the National assessment, and will also share the ndings Mexico for the donation of the ICRC Ante- Commission of Support for Disabled Returnee and recommendations for concrete actions mortem/Post-mortem (AMPM) data manage- Migrants (CONAMIREDIS, an NGO funded by the with national and regional authorities. ment software, and in February of this year, Catholic Church) and the Centre for Returned began training courses on the collection of data Migrants (CAMR). Furthermore, the ICRC supports national and the use of the AMPM database, as part of a authorities in facilitating the search for unied system to search for missing persons. In September 2013, to complement the physical information on the fate and whereabouts of rehabilitation component of its humanitarian missing persons throughout the region by The Ministry of Foreign Aairs, the National response, the ICRC launched a pilot programme encouraging the creation of mechanisms to Institute of Forensic Science and the Public called the Micro Economic Initiatives Project. It search for, recover, exhume, identify and return Prosecutor's Oce of Guatemala, as well as the intends to socially reintegrate repatriated human remains. The ICRC also provides Institute of Legal Medicine of El Salvador and of migrants with disabilities by improving their training on interview techniques with a Honduras, also received the database and will socioeconomic conditions. Participants join in a psychosocial approach, as well as technical receive a similar training programme for its workshop where they receive training and support for forensic specialists. implementation. In order to improve the ability support to identify business opportunities and to to identify human remains, the ICRC encourages elaborate a viable business plan. Once vetted, The ICRC provides technical advice to the coordination among forensic authorities at a each participant receives ascertained funds to Working Group on Missing Persons created as national and regional level. develop their own micro economic initiative. a part of the agreement with the Mexican Secretariat of the Interior (Secretaría de Gober- In 2014, the ICRC continues to provide various ICRC teams working in the northern border states nación, SEGOB) in Mexico in 2013. training courses to medical legal experts throug- of Mexico with the U.S. also monitored the hout Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico, on the humanitarian consequences of the deportation The Group is tasked with ensuring coordina- handling of human remains and interacting with process along the U.S.-Mexico border, and tion between federal entities and developing missing persons’ family members. In May, a rst recently in coordination with the ICRC Delegation public policies. Four sub-working groups were ICRC course for lawyers of the Inter-American in Washington D.C., presented condential obser- created in order to tackle specic issues Court of Human Rights on forensic best practices vations to U.S. migration authorities (Department concerning the strengthening of forensic was held in Costa Rica. of Homeland Security). The conditions of repatria- services, the development of an information tion by Mexican authorities to Honduras and management system, the compatibility of Guatemala are also being monitored. national legislation with international standards and the establishment of mecha- The ICRC also conducted regular multidisciplinary nisms able to provide appropriate and visits to migrant detention centres in Mexico, comprehensive accompaniment of the during which it inspected the premises and families of missing persons. conducted private interviews with migrants. After analysing the information gathered and its own observations, the ICRC provided written and oral condential feedback and recommendations to MISSION The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and
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